Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress and former model who has appeared in over 46 films in five languages, predominantly Hindi and Tamil languages. She made her acting debut in 1997 with dual role in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil political drama film Iruvar, and her Bollywood debut that same year in the romantic comedy Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya opposite Bobby Deol.
Rai followed it with a leading role in Jeans (1998), a high-profile Tamil film that was submitted as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards.She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s romantic drama Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and starred as a singer in the musical drama Taal (both 1999).Rai had six film releases in 2000, including Kandukondain Kandukondain, a Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility, and Aditya Chopra’s romantic drama Mohabbatein.
In 2002, Rai played Co Starring Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles in Bhansali’s period romance Devdas, an adaptation of the novel of the same name. Her performance in the top-grossing production earned her a second Best Actress award at Filmfare.In 2003, Rai played a sexually repressed widow in Rituparno Ghosh’s Bengali film Chokher Bali, a sleeper hit.
However, the failure of her two Hindi film releases of the year—Dil Ka Rishta and Kuch Naa Kaho—led to a setback in her Bollywood career.The following year, Rai played a character based on Elizabeth Bennet in a Bollywood-style adaptation of Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, entitled Bride and Prejudice, a British production directed by Gurinder Chadha.Also in 2004, she reunited with Ghosh to play a depressed woman in the drama Raincoat.
In 2006, Rai featured as a thief in the action film Dhoom 2, her biggest commercial success since Devdas. She followed it by playing the leading lady opposite Abhishek Bachchan in Ratnam’s drama Guru (2007), a box office hit.Also in 2007, Rai appeared in her first Hollywood production—the unremarkable The Last Legion.Greater success came with the role of Jodhaa Bai opposite Hrithik Roshan’s Akbar in the historical drama Jodhaa Akbar (2008).Rai had five film releases in 2010, including the ₹2.5 billion (US$33 million)-grossing Tamil science fiction film Enthiran co-starring Rajinikanth.
She also played a quadriplegic’s nurse in Bhansali’s acclaimed drama Guzaarish. After a sabbatical, Rai made her comeback with Jazbaa (2015), a remake of the South Korean film Seven Days. In 2016, she took on the supporting part of a poetess in the romance Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which ranks as her highest-grossing Bollywood release.
Aishwarya Rai All Movie List :
Film | Role | Language | Year |
Iruvar Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya | Pushpavalli/Kalpana Ashi Kapoor | Tamil Hindi | 1997 |
Jeans | Madhumitha/Vaishnavi | Tamil | 1998 |
Aa Ab Laut Chalen Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Ravoyi Chandamama Taal | Pooja Walia Nandini Herself Mansi | Hindi Hindi Telugu Hindi | 1999 |
Mela Kandukondain Kandukondain Josh Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai Dhai Akshar Prem Ke Mohabbatein | Champakali Meenakshi Shirley Dias Preeti Vyas Sahiba Grewal Megha Shankar | Hindi Tamil Hindi Hindi Hindi Hindi | 2000 |
Albela | Sonia Heinz | Hindi | 2001 |
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam Hum Kisise Kum Nahin 23 March 1931: Shaheed Devdas Shakti: The Power | Suman Komal Rastogi Mannawali Parvati “Paro” Herself | Hindi Hindi Hindi Hindi Hindi | 2002 |
Chokher Bali Dil Ka Rishta Kuch Naa Kaho | Binodini Tia Sharma Namrata Shrivastav | Bengali Hindi Hindi | 2003 |
Khakee Kyun…! Ho Gaya Na Bride & Prejudice Raincoat | Mahalakshmi Diya Malhotra Lalita Bakshi Neerja | Hindi Hindi English Hindi | 2004 |
Shabd The Mistress of Spices Bunty Aur Babli | Antara Vashist/Tammana Tilo Herself | Hindi English Hindi | 2005 |
Umrao Jaan Dhoom 2 | Umrao Jaan Sunehri | Hindi Hindi | 2006 |
Guru Provoked The Last Legion | Sujata Desai Kiranjit Ahluwalia Mira | Hindi English English | 2007 |
Jodhaa Akbar Sarkar Raj | Jodhaa Bai Anita Rajan | Hindi Hindi | 2008 |
The Pink Panther 2 | Sonia Solandres | English | 2009 |
Raavan Raavanan Enthiran Action Replayy Guzaarish | Ragini Sharma Ragini Subramaniam Sana Mala Sofia D’Souza | Hindi Tamil Tamil Hindi Hindi | 2010 |
Jazbaa | Anuradha Verma | Hindi | 2015 |
Sarbjit Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | Dalbir Kaur Saba Qazi | Hindi Hindi | 2016 |
Fanney Khan | Baby Singh | Hindi | 2018 |
Ponniyin Selvan 1 | Nandini / Mandakini Devi | Tamil | 2022 |
Ponniyin Selvan 2 | Aishwarya Rai | 2023 |